Re: Tomcat 7 deployment TapestryModule.RequestExceptionHandler Processing of request failed with uncaught exception: Component Index does not contain embedded component 'jsp'.

[Lance Java]

Another option might be to tell tapestry to ignore the welcome file list

public static void contributeIgnoredPathsFilter(Configuration<String>
configuration) {
   configuration.add("(index\\.html)|(index\\.htm)|(index\\.jsp)");
}

http://tapestry.apache.org/configuration.html#Configuration-ConfiguringIgnoredPaths